Suspender-hook



(No Model.)

B. R. DOBBS.

SUSPENDER HOOK.

No. 452,217. Patented May 12,1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELY R. DOBBS, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NE\V YORK.

SUSPENDER-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 452,217,dated May 12, 1891.

Application filed April 19, 1890. Serial No. 3l8fi352. (No model.)

T0 on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELY R. DOBBS, of Poughkeepsie, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Suspender-Hook, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a device designed to be used in place of suspender-buttons on pantaloons.

The Suspender-hook}? as I term it, comprises a main body, a hook to receive the suspender-end, and a fastening device for attaching the hook on the waistband. It may be attached and detached in a moment, and thus may be adjusted to the position which best adapts it to the length of the suspender-end and to the position which gives the most comfort to the wearer. It is also constructed in such manner that no part of the clothing can catch upon it, as upon common buttons, and it is also so constructed that the suspender-end cannot become detached or Wear the shirt or vest.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 illustrates the use of my invention as applied to the waistband of pantaloons, one holding a suspender-end, the other in position to receive a suspender-end. Fig. 2 is an edge view of a Suspender-hook detached from the garment, and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same.

A represents the main body of the suspender-hook, B the hook to receive the suspender-end, and (l the fastening device for securing the body to the garment. The body A is by preference composed of spring plates or members a a, formed by folding a plate of spring-drawn brass or other suitable material upon itself. The plate or member a is slotted or formed with an aperture a to hold the hook B by its T-piece or tongue I). The spring action or pressure of the plates or members a a on the said T-piece serves to normally hold the hook B in vertical position, as

shown at the right in Fig. 1, so that the suspender-end will be held against casual detachment from the hook. NVhen the hook is turned down, as shown at the left in Fig. 1, it

spreads the'plates or members a a, and in this manner the hook is fully exposed to receive the suspender-end. The suspenderhaving been placed in the hook, it is only necessary to press upward upon the hook and turn the tongue bbelowa horizontal position,when the spring action of the plates or members will suddenly throw it up to place, as at the right in Fig. 1, in which position the hook will be closed by reason of the proximity of its extremity to the upper end of the plate a, and therefore the suspender-end cannot become detached until the hook is thrown outward, as at the left in Fig. 1.

The means 0 for fastening the device to the pantaloons comprise, by preference, .two hooks or pins 0 cand cross-piece c, which latter is held in the fold a of the plates or members a a, as in a hinge. The pins 0 c are curved, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and bypreference turn upward, so that their points reach to the top of the plate a, where they may be sprung behind the curved clips 2' 2' at the side edges of the said plate a.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A suspender-hook consisting in a body formed of a plate bent centrally upon itself to form an outer and an inner spring member, the upper ends of which are disconnected or free to spring toward and from each other, a transverse slot in the upper end of the outer member, a vertically-swinging hook curved inward over the upper end of thebody, the extremity of the hook extending close to the upper edge of the body when the hook is in its vertical position to lock the suspender-end therein until the hook is swung outward, the shank of which hook extends through said slot, and provided on its inner end between the two members with a cross-piece, said spring members holding the hook vertically or when swung outward and downward, and means for attaching the body to the garment, substantially as set forth.

2. A suspender-hook consistingin the body folded uponitself to form the two spring members free at their upper ends, a transverse slot in the outer member near its upper end, keepers on the opposite edges of the inner member at the upper end thereof, pins connected with the lower end of the body to pass slot a at its upper end and bent to form a bearing a at its lower end, in combination with the two pins 0 and cross-piece 0 and the hook 3, formed with a T-piece b and fitted in said slot a substantially as described.

ELY R. HOBBS. \\"itnesses:

JONATHAN DICKINSON, FREDK. B. MOELLER. 

